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the other papers given here will bring forth aind describe such 

 new features as have been introduced during the last year. It has 

 been the purpose of this paper merely to inform you in general 

 as to how Army mosquito control work is being conducted and to 

 point out certain facts which distinguish it from the work as it is 

 done here in your own state. 



President Engle: Under a recent law, our schools are re- 

 quired to give a certain amount of time to physical training and 

 informiational work; and part of that time is in civic work. In 

 Atlantic County or Atlantic City, the Mosquito Commission sug- 

 gested that some of that civic work might be devoted to the study 

 of mosquitoes ; and as a result of the lecturing and the information 

 given them, the childern were asked to write essays, and a prize 

 was given, if I am correctly informed, for the successful essay. 

 The young lady who wrote that essay is present and I think we 

 would like to hear her read it, so as to get the attitude of the school 

 children towards this mosquito work; for it is upon them, I am 

 afraid, that a good deal of this mosquito problem will fall, cer- 

 tainly the continuation of it. Miss Elizabeth Culbert. 



The Mosquito War. 



By Elizabeth Culbert, 

 Atlantic City High School. 



Anyone, who has been awakened just as he was about to cap- 

 ture the Kaiser, by the stock of a mosquito's bayonet, knows the 

 importance of getting rid of these little "Huns.*' 



Peace-loving citizens, who have gone out in the country beside 

 a quiet lake to enjoy a week or two of camping and relief from 

 the hot summer sun, find their camps under strict military discipline. 

 The part of the day, not spent in the "guard house" (behind bars of 

 mosquito netting), is spent in fighting mosquitoes out on "No- 

 Man's-Land." 



We can laugh and joke about these little "Huns," with bayonets 

 ever fixed and ready for action, just as we can laugh and joke 

 about their older brothers, but we know that the German soldiers 

 of today are harmful and dangerous things to have about. We 

 also know that the mosquitoes are harmful and while we sleep may 

 bring disease and death. 



